Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought 445
itwbennett writes "According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2012 about 22% of computer programmers, software and web developers in the United States were female. That number comes from the Current Population Survey, which is based on interviews with 60,000 households. But Tracy Chou, an engineer at Pinterest, thinks the number is actually much lower than that. And last month she created a GitHub project to collect data on how many females are employed full-time writing or architecting software. Even at this early point, the data is striking: Based on data reported for 107 companies, 438 of 3,594 engineers (12%) are female. Here's how some well-known companies stack up."
Women in general aren't introverted enough (Score:5, Funny)
Women in general aren't introverted enough. Most women refuse to live in a dark room with a slot in the door that someone stuffs food through. Without that you can't be a successful programmer.
Scary (Score:5, Funny)
I read this as "Female Software Engineers may be even Scarier Than we Thought" and I couldn't wait to find out how in the world that was going to be quantified and/or justified.
I love geeks, scary or not.
Misread that (Score:4, Funny)
I thought it said Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarier Than We Thought.
Re:Misread that (Score:5, Funny)
I thought it said Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarier Than We Thought.
We are.
Re:So what? (Score:2, Funny)
You know, telling a story about your mom and pretending that you have a girlfriend really doesn't make you cool. Because with that attitude, I really doubt you have an actual gf (or at least that you will have one for very long).